Category Archives: Assignments

For the Wikipedia assignment I would like to expand on haikai from the poetry stub. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haikai Two sources that I have found in the library catalog are: – By Crowley, Cheryl A. called  Haikai poet Yosa Buson and the Basho revival – … Continue reading →

As the first step in our Wikipedia assignment, I would like you to identify a wikipedia stub related to poetry that needs to be expanded. In wikipedia parlance, a “stub” is a page that is underdeveloped and needs to be … Continue reading →

https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/appenvdes2012-03/ is the link to the site that was supposed to have been where i’ve posted to. however, i’m having the hardest time trying to find my post. as discussed in our class this week, many of these classes were … Continue reading →

For Thursday’s class, we’re going to move a bit away from poetry, narrowly defined, in order to do some experimentation with the platform we’re using to study it this semester — the OpenLab. As you know, the OpenLab provides a … Continue reading →

  Being currently enrolled in a poetry class and having many discussions about poetry during class and through our online blogs, i’ve begun to wonder why poetry is not more widely used in advertising.  From what it seems, the only … Continue reading →

1. Reading: WW: “The Dancer and the Dance” 2. Writing: a. Blog post: open topic. — if you’d like, you might think about writing on the tension between freedom and bondage that we examined in Frost’s “The Silken Tent” b. … Continue reading →

Sound as meaning On page 146 it says “we hear  even when we seem to be taking them silently from the page”. I found that interesting because we don’t think about it but it’s true. Even if when we read … Continue reading →

  We were asked in our first blog posts to define poetry.  I found that poetry cannot simply be defined, it is something ambiguous.  I felt poetry to be something that is experienced by individual readers and therefore has no … Continue reading →

Hi All — Here are your upcoming assignments: For Thursday, 3/8 Read: WW, “Gold in the Ore” Write: one blog post and two comments — The blog post assignment: write about anything that you find interesting or provocative in our … Continue reading →